kensegall.com - 20 days ago
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Every PC company tries to make it easier for customers to buy their stuff. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more to it than streamlining the checkout process. The real problem is a nasty one, rooted deep in the corporate culture — and all seem powerless to fix it:
pcpro.co.uk - 26 days ago
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pcpro.co.uk —
Mike Jennings reveals how PC makers hobble your
laptop with preinstalled software
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The Crapware Con
orb.com - 18 days ago
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orb.com —
Once you've downloaded and installed Orb to your
home PC, login to mycast.orb.com , using any internet-connected
device with a streaming media player (mobile phone, PDA, laptop) and start MyCasting all your digital media anywhere anytime. Orb is also ...
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Media Anywhere
betanews.com - 27 days ago
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By Joe Wilcox , Betanews I'm going to
make a bold prediction: Apple's iPhone will lose the
mobile device wars. Such statement will send some iPhone fans howling -- perhaps appropriately so with the full moon days passed and Halloween days away. :) ...
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iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars
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The man who put the 'i' in iMac
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... says over the last few years, the debate about dropping the “i” prefix has come up several times at Apple. “They’ve asked: ‘Should the company drop the “i”?’ But there’s a desire to keep it consistent: iMac, iPod, iPhone. It’s not as clean as it should be, but it works.”
You can read more of the interview, including the story of how the "Think Different" campaign got started, at Cult of Mac here.
Also worth visiting: Segall's own blog, Observatory, with his commentary on everything from Motorola's (MOT) Cliq ads (he ...
Meet the guy behind the 'i' in iMac, iPod, iPhone
The Microsoft Blog —
Ever wondered whom to credit or whom to blame for the "i" in Apple's iMac, iPod and iPhone? It's Ken Segall , a former creative director at Apple's main advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and now an employee at Dell. Leander Kahney, of Cult of Mac, ...
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